Mary Melinda Scott was the daughter of Samuel Scott and Minerva Fisher. Samuel and Minerva had six children: Malissa, Mary Catherine, Harriet E., Huldah C., Howard and Mary Melinda.
Mary married John Reason Bell on 21 Jan 1873 in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. To this union were born 9 children: Myrtle Amy who married John Franklin Conner, Irene Maude who married Albert Epworth Tomlinson, Nellie Alice who married Ira Elmer Miller, an infant son born and died in Aug 1880 unnamed, Leroy Ernest who married Jennie May Whitney, Herbert Harrison who married Elsie Mary Whitney, Glen Samuel who married Ethel Pearl Whitney, Geneva Minerva who married Charles Logan Byers, and Laura Eugenia who married Walter E. Backus.
THE MAXWELL IOWA TRIBUNE; Maxwell, Iowa; Mar 8, 1928, pg. 1; MRS. JOHN R. BELL "Funeral services for Mrs. John R. Bell, of Altoona, who died Friday, were held Sunday afternoon from the Peoria M. P. church. The services were conducted by Rev. W. S. Kight, pastor of the local Methodist church. The church was filled with neighbors and friends who had lived in that locality and was known by many for her womanly traits of character, sympathic and kind to all and spent her life in a real service for her own children and any one to whom she could. She will be greatly missed by many. Mary Melinda Scott, daughter of Samuel and Minerva Scott, was born near Rockford, Ill., March 4 1856, and died March 2 1928, at Altoona, Iowa, aged 71 years, 11 months and 27 days. She was united in marriage to John R. Bell January 21, 1873 and this union were born nine children, seven of whom survive her. Mertie Conner of Henry, S. D.; Nellie Miller, of Springfield, Mo.; Roy Bell, of Maxwell; Bert Bell of Des Moines; Glen Bell of Bondurant; Jennie Byers of Maxwell; and Laura Backus, of Berwick; also twenty-six grand children and sixteen great grandchildren. One daughter Irene and one infant son preceeded her in death. Early in life she was converted and united with the Baptist church, later uniting with the M. P. church at Peoria."
Mary married John Reason Bell on 21 Jan 1873 in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. To this union were born 9 children: Myrtle Amy who married John Franklin Conner, Irene Maude who married Albert Epworth Tomlinson, Nellie Alice who married Ira Elmer Miller, an infant son born and died in Aug 1880 unnamed, Leroy Ernest who married Jennie May Whitney, Herbert Harrison who married Elsie Mary Whitney, Glen Samuel who married Ethel Pearl Whitney, Geneva Minerva who married Charles Logan Byers, and Laura Eugenia who married Walter E. Backus.
THE MAXWELL IOWA TRIBUNE; Maxwell, Iowa; Mar 8, 1928, pg. 1; MRS. JOHN R. BELL "Funeral services for Mrs. John R. Bell, of Altoona, who died Friday, were held Sunday afternoon from the Peoria M. P. church. The services were conducted by Rev. W. S. Kight, pastor of the local Methodist church. The church was filled with neighbors and friends who had lived in that locality and was known by many for her womanly traits of character, sympathic and kind to all and spent her life in a real service for her own children and any one to whom she could. She will be greatly missed by many. Mary Melinda Scott, daughter of Samuel and Minerva Scott, was born near Rockford, Ill., March 4 1856, and died March 2 1928, at Altoona, Iowa, aged 71 years, 11 months and 27 days. She was united in marriage to John R. Bell January 21, 1873 and this union were born nine children, seven of whom survive her. Mertie Conner of Henry, S. D.; Nellie Miller, of Springfield, Mo.; Roy Bell, of Maxwell; Bert Bell of Des Moines; Glen Bell of Bondurant; Jennie Byers of Maxwell; and Laura Backus, of Berwick; also twenty-six grand children and sixteen great grandchildren. One daughter Irene and one infant son preceeded her in death. Early in life she was converted and united with the Baptist church, later uniting with the M. P. church at Peoria."
Mary Melinda Scott was the daughter of Samuel Scott and Minerva Fisher. Samuel and Minerva had six children: Malissa, Mary Catherine, Harriet E., Huldah C., Howard and Mary Melinda.
Mary married John Reason Bell on 21 Jan 1873 in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. To this union were born 9 children: Myrtle Amy who married John Franklin Conner, Irene Maude who married Albert Epworth Tomlinson, Nellie Alice who married Ira Elmer Miller, an infant son born and died in Aug 1880 unnamed, Leroy Ernest who married Jennie May Whitney, Herbert Harrison who married Elsie Mary Whitney, Glen Samuel who married Ethel Pearl Whitney, Geneva Minerva who married Charles Logan Byers, and Laura Eugenia who married Walter E. Backus.
THE MAXWELL IOWA TRIBUNE; Maxwell, Iowa; Mar 8, 1928, pg. 1; MRS. JOHN R. BELL "Funeral services for Mrs. John R. Bell, of Altoona, who died Friday, were held Sunday afternoon from the Peoria M. P. church. The services were conducted by Rev. W. S. Kight, pastor of the local Methodist church. The church was filled with neighbors and friends who had lived in that locality and was known by many for her womanly traits of character, sympathic and kind to all and spent her life in a real service for her own children and any one to whom she could. She will be greatly missed by many. Mary Melinda Scott, daughter of Samuel and Minerva Scott, was born near Rockford, Ill., March 4 1856, and died March 2 1928, at Altoona, Iowa, aged 71 years, 11 months and 27 days. She was united in marriage to John R. Bell January 21, 1873 and this union were born nine children, seven of whom survive her. Mertie Conner of Henry, S. D.; Nellie Miller, of Springfield, Mo.; Roy Bell, of Maxwell; Bert Bell of Des Moines; Glen Bell of Bondurant; Jennie Byers of Maxwell; and Laura Backus, of Berwick; also twenty-six grand children and sixteen great grandchildren. One daughter Irene and one infant son preceeded her in death. Early in life she was converted and united with the Baptist church, later uniting with the M. P. church at Peoria."
Mary married John Reason Bell on 21 Jan 1873 in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. To this union were born 9 children: Myrtle Amy who married John Franklin Conner, Irene Maude who married Albert Epworth Tomlinson, Nellie Alice who married Ira Elmer Miller, an infant son born and died in Aug 1880 unnamed, Leroy Ernest who married Jennie May Whitney, Herbert Harrison who married Elsie Mary Whitney, Glen Samuel who married Ethel Pearl Whitney, Geneva Minerva who married Charles Logan Byers, and Laura Eugenia who married Walter E. Backus.
THE MAXWELL IOWA TRIBUNE; Maxwell, Iowa; Mar 8, 1928, pg. 1; MRS. JOHN R. BELL "Funeral services for Mrs. John R. Bell, of Altoona, who died Friday, were held Sunday afternoon from the Peoria M. P. church. The services were conducted by Rev. W. S. Kight, pastor of the local Methodist church. The church was filled with neighbors and friends who had lived in that locality and was known by many for her womanly traits of character, sympathic and kind to all and spent her life in a real service for her own children and any one to whom she could. She will be greatly missed by many. Mary Melinda Scott, daughter of Samuel and Minerva Scott, was born near Rockford, Ill., March 4 1856, and died March 2 1928, at Altoona, Iowa, aged 71 years, 11 months and 27 days. She was united in marriage to John R. Bell January 21, 1873 and this union were born nine children, seven of whom survive her. Mertie Conner of Henry, S. D.; Nellie Miller, of Springfield, Mo.; Roy Bell, of Maxwell; Bert Bell of Des Moines; Glen Bell of Bondurant; Jennie Byers of Maxwell; and Laura Backus, of Berwick; also twenty-six grand children and sixteen great grandchildren. One daughter Irene and one infant son preceeded her in death. Early in life she was converted and united with the Baptist church, later uniting with the M. P. church at Peoria."
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